The passions of the soule in three books the first, treating of the passions in generall, and occasionally of the whole nature of man. The second, of the number, and order of the passions, and the explication of the six primitive ones. The third, of particular passions. By R. des Cartes. And translated out of French into English.

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Title: The passions of the soule in three books the first, treating of the passions in generall, and occasionally of the whole nature of man. The second, of the number, and order of the passions, and the explication of the six primitive ones. The third, of particular passions. By R. des Cartes. And translated out of French into English.
Author: Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
Publication: London :: Printed for A.C. and are to be sold by J. Martin, and J. Ridley, at the Castle in Fleetstreet neer Ram-Alley,; 1650.
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Subject terms: Human behavior -- Miscellanea -- Early works to 1800.; Emotions -- Early works to 1800.
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The 114th Article. Of changing Colour.

A Man cannot so easily refrain from blushing or looking pale, when any Passion disposseth him thereunto: because these changings depend not on the nerves, and muscles, as the former, and because they come more immediately from the heart, which may be called the source of the Passions, seeing it prepares the blood, and spirits to produce them. Now it is certain that the colour of the face comes from nought but the blood, which flowing continually from the heart, through the arteries into all the veines, and from all the veines into the heart, colours the face more or lesse, according as it more or lesse fills the little veines towards the superficies thereof.